blue for “live games”. I think this isn’t used at the moment. Has someone seen that sometimes?

green ranked 19x19 games one can accept.

magenta ranked 13x13 games one can accept.

cyan ranked 9x9 games one can accept.

orange unranked games one can accept (any board size).

red own challenges.

gray not acceptable challenges.

If there is more than one open challenge for a point (time_per_move, rank) in the seek graph, the rectangle is bigger. (don’t trust the colors there, the color corresponds to at least 1 of the games, not necessarily all of them. Gray or red are only used if all of the games are either color).

Does anyone actually use scatterplot to pick challenges? I tried once and found it almost useless.

I think it would be nice to have those informations in the challenge list below in a more intuitive way than just text. Especially the “ranked” option, board size and timesetting.

It actually would be very good to have a gradient for timesetting, in order to highlight when a “correspondence” game has a very fast timesetting (e.g. canadian 24h x 10 moves) or very slow (fisher 21d + 1d per move).

I’m not very good at charts so, trying to figure how to show all those coloured informatiions in the text table ended up in a sort of clown vomit. But I’m sure someone could find an appealing way to do it.

I think the place where it’s useful is in chat. If you are hanging in chat and see a blip in the area you are interested in (blitz 13x13 you can accept say) then you can rush over to the Play page and accept.

It’s reasonably useless on the play page because you can scan the open games you can accept in one quick look I think.